Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price?

Posted by whitepoplar on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:03PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've come to use (and love) several subscriptions that I believe are well worth their price.

My list:

Dropbox

1Password

Cloak VPN

Newton Email

SmugMug

Amazon Prime

Lapham's Quarterly

Do you have any you'd like to share? Software, print, lifestyle, household-- doesn't matter. :)

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by malux85 on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:44PM (#14589315)

Digitally Imported (http://www.di.fm/) no affiliation, just happy customer

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by kk_cz on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @08:01AM (#14593845)

I am happy with the cheapest ssd vps option from OVH - I run debian with few low traffic websites and so far it works great.

I have also recently switched from Adobe Creative Photography plan to Zoner Photo Studio - for about 1/4 of the price (it has the same functionality as Lightroom and I wasn't using Photoshop anyway)

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by kreeWall on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:56PM (#14589412)

Spotify and Amazon Prime for me! I love the ability to have my music with me all of the time and Spotify's interface, and Amazon Prime pays for itself in free shipping - my family loves their content!

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by fspear on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:09PM (#14591338)

Safari Books online, Netflix, Google Play Music, Amazon Prime

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by minhajuddin on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:36PM (#14607139)

I am gonna sound trite. But here goes nothing. LiveForm (https://liveformhq.com/) is a service which allows you to setup form endpoints with reCAPTCHA and a ton of other things (including file uploads). And, it costs $3 per month. Full Disclosure: I built it.

Also, Google Drive.

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by dionmanu on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:43PM (#14589811)

Amazon Prime and Costco for me. I have the executive membership at Costco, which basically pays for itself with the annual 2% reward on purchases.

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by SmellTheGlove on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:51PM (#14597375)

Online -

Dropbox

Amazon Prime (trying Google Express right now)

Netflix

$5 VPS on DO for small projects

Google Apps for a couple of domains, mainly for email

Straight Talk, 2 lines

Offline -

Sam's Club (no Costco up here)

Beach parking permit

Children's Museum (go with the ACM Passport level membership if your local one is part of this association, you get benefits when visiting member museums in other cities)

Disney Vacation Club

Citi Prestige Mastercard (has some benefits going away, but a great card for travel benefits and insurance)

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by verganileonardo on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:35PM (#14589241)

Google Drive (especially to expand Gmail storage)

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by skiltz on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:41PM (#14589791)

https://cronitor.io - Helps me sleep.

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by aminozuur on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:01AM (#14592320)

Brazzers

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by xwvvvvwx on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:11PM (#14589030)

Spotify

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by paulcole on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:09PM (#14589506)

Apple Music, Hulu, MLS Live (American professional soccer), NFL Sunday Ticket (American professional football), Twitch (I subscribe to several streamers I like).

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by kzisme on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:05AM (#14595155)

Does anyone have suggestions for a VPN (Is Cloak pretty good?)

Also I have never heard of Lapham's Quarterly - any reviews on that?

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by alltakendamned on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:11AM (#14595195)

F-Secure Freedome

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by akg_67 on Monday June 19, 2017 @09:33PM (#14591632)

Dropbox, Netflix, Costco, Memrise (language learning app) are the only paid subscriptions I use.

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by patatino on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:29PM (#14590194)

Dropbox, 1Password, Spotify, couple of content creators on patreon

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by swah on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @08:05AM (#14593880)

Spotify, 1password, netflix, google drive

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by simplehuman on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:35PM (#14592015)

Cloudron.io (amazing for self hosting)

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by e_py on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:54AM (#14592669)

Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, PSN

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by littleweep on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:02PM (#14589461)

Spotify, Amazon Prime, NY Times

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by alashley on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:20PM (#14589606)

Pluralsight

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by UK-AL on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:01PM (#14589948)

Netflix, Amazon prime

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by wolco on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:42AM (#14592253)

Laracasts, netflicks

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by iDemonix on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:06AM (#14592703)

Prime, GitHub

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by pedrodelfino on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:10PM (#14606973)

Dropbox

RescueTime

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by sergiotapia on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:03AM (#14592324)

Ynab

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by cm2012 on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:01PM (#14591718)

As a marketing consultant:

Zapier

Microsoft Office

Zapier

Photoshop

Zapier

ActiveCampaign

Xero

UberConference

Zapier

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by jnbiche on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @07:32PM (#14599434)

I've always been surprised that so few business professionals take advantage of Zapier. Online marketing consultants seem to be among the few professional groups to have latched on to all that Zapier has to offer.

I know so many small business owners who do some amount of online work who could save so much time by using Zapier, but they typically seem uninterested. It's a shame Zapier doesn't offer any type of affiliate/partnership programs or I'd try to find some way to show business professionals how to save massive time by automating with Zapiers.

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by whitepoplar on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:48PM (#14591872)

Zapier is indeed handy! (as is ActiveCampaign) I'm currently building email marketing software. Is there anything that's surprisingly frustrating about the existing email marketing companies? What do you wish was different, apart from the price?

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by cm2012 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:25AM (#14592194)

They meet my needs, honestly.

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by mars4rp on Monday June 19, 2017 @06:36PM (#14590961)

C9.io

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by tedmiston on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:10PM (#14591941)

Has the service changed post acquisition? I was under the impression Amazon was going to fade it into their own product line e.g. as an editor for Lambda.

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Re:Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price? by mars4rp on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:07AM (#14595171)

I haven't notice anything, I think they were not using AWS before acquisition. it makes sense if they moved their clouds to AWS. but their service was up and I didn't notice anything.

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